[WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/2009 12:40:10 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com writes:

As for  your interest in this thread (intended point)... I think Geni is
right in  saying that our current practice of merging is in violation of
GFDL. We  cannot ignore any part of the GFDL license as it is legally
binding. A  solution to the problem can be achieved culturally (by altering
our merge  practices) and technically (by altering the source code - perhaps
the  creation of a [[Special:Merge]]).>>


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Whether or not Geni's interpretation of this particular point is on-target  
is tied as well to our current blatant disregard for mirrors which do not even  
link to the history page in the first place.  I mentioned that a while back  
and since then I know of nothing that the foundation or any other official 
group  has done to look into it.
 
If we ignore these supposed violations of the GFDL, there will come a point  
when any suit over any new violation can simply use the same argument as  
"historic right-of-way" that is, "its been this way for a long time and they've  
done nothing about it."
 
Of course the interpretation that all mirrors (and our own merges) even  need 
to link in all of history, is still open to debate.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
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